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Leading Strategic Growth + Innovation: Dr. Sanchez-Burks is an award winning designer, faculty director and professor of action-based executive leadership programs in over 30 countries.

Through his expertise in strategic growth and innovation, he develops others to lead organizational change, navigate strategic conversations and deploy design thinking principles to achieve extraordinary results.

Dr. Sanchez-Burks has served as the Director of the Executive MBA Leadership Development Program, Co-founder and Faculty Director of the +Impact studio, and Faculty Director of the ‘Design and Innovation MBA concentration at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business (2013-2017). He is also the Faculty Director of custom designed executive education leadership programs for Fortune 100 companies. His experience in leadership development spans diverse organizations, from healthcare to global financial and service organizations, to culture and arts institutions to NGOs.

Recently Executive Briefs:

**Click here to see his recently launched MOOC/Coursera course, “Emotional Intelligence: Cultivating Immensely Human Interactions”

Coverage of Sanchez-Burks’s innovation in Executive Education

Click here for an article from the UM Alumni Association on Design

Click here for an article from Chief Learning Officer

Click here for a video interview on Design Thinking principles

Executive Education Impact Award for Custom Programs

Given to Dr. Sanchez-Burks in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to the Ross School of Business Executive Education Program through his strong leadership and development of programs that promote active cutting-edge learning (2014).

Published Teaching Exercises and Cases

Confronting Directly and Indirectly: Are You Attuned to Notice? (2014). Case Number: OB-1055, Darden Business Publishing, University of Virginia (http://store.darden.virginia.edu/confronting-directly-and-indirectly-are-you-attuned-to-notice) (with Behfar, K. and Brett, J.).

Havana Plants, a cross-cultural negotiation exercise. (2012). DRRC, Kellogg School of Management DRRC, Kellogg School of Management (with Rees, L, & Wang, C.) (http://www.negotiationexercises.com/Details.aspx?ItemID=158).

Teaching note for Havana Plants. (2012). DRRC, Kellogg School of Management DRRC, Kellogg School of Management (with Rees, L, & Wang, C.) (http://www.negotiationexercises.com/Details.aspx?ItemID=158).

Bridging in a Globalizing World: Strategies and Tools for Developing Cultural Intelligence (Note: 1-428-583). The William Davidson Institute, October 1, 2008. (with Branch, J., & Augustine, G.) (http://globalens.com/casedetail.aspx?cid=1428583).